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hydro- +‎ sorbic acid

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hydrosorbic acid (uncountable)

  1. (organic chemistry) An acid obtained from sorbic acid when it takes up hydrogen.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for hydrosorbic acid”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)